The Rise Of Raunchy Art

Sex sells. No surprise there. But nudity and sex have been incresingly making the scene in the contemporary art world. “With the Internet and cable TV making pornography widely available on an anytime-of-day basis, it was probably inevitable that artists would find their own ways to channel it into their work and that galleries would show the results. Consider the New York exhibition season just past, most notable not for nudity, which now sells tickets only on Broadway, but for the number of phalluses in plain view.”